Don WoodAudrey Wood

An ALA Notable Children’s Book

A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year

A Golden Kite Award Winner

A California Young Reader Medal Winner

A Booklist Editors’ Choice

A Booklist Best Book of the Eighties

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$17.99/Higher in CanadaISBN 978-0-544-30832-9

“An appealing , stylish book

that is perfect for story hours.”

—Booklist , starred review

“A delightful marriage of

words and pictures.”

—Los Angeles Times

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

www.hmhco.com

Jacket illustrations copyright © 2015 by Don Wood

Hand-lettering created by Leah Palmer Preiss

AuDREY WooD and

DoN WooD have been writing

and illustrating picture books

together since the early years of

their marriage. Their acclaimed

books include Piggies, Heckedy

Peg , Piggy Pie Po , the Caldecott

Honor Book King Bidgood’s in

the Bathtub, and their longtime

classic The Napping House.

For many years the Woods lived

in California in the very home

portrayed as the napping house.

They now live near the sea in

Hawaii, where the full moon

draws them outside for nighttime

walks on the beach. Visit their

website at www.audreywood.com.

$17.99/Higher in Canada

A full moon . . .A quiet night . . .

A cozy bed . . .Why isn’t everyone

sleeping?

Audrey and Don Wood’s

The Napping House has been

beloved by families for generations.

Now The Full Moon at the

Napping House , its irresistible

companion book, is poised to

become a bedtime favorite—

perfect for sharing when

the moon is full.

Praise for the beloved bestselling classic:

written by Audrey Wood

illustrated by doN Wood

Houghton Mifflin HarcourtBoston New york

Text copyright © 2015 by Audrey WoodIllustrations copyright © 2015 by don Wood

All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book,

write to Permissions, Houghton Miff lin Harcourt

Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South,

New york, New york 10003.

www.hmhco.comwww.audreywood.com

The paintings were rendered in open acrylics on stretched and grounded watercolor paper.

The text type was set in oPTIAdrift.The hand-lettering was created by Leah Palmer Preiss.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

Wood, Audrey. The full moon at the napping house / Audrey Wood ; don Wood.

pages cm Summary: In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.

ISBN 978-0-544-30832-9 (alk. paper) [1. Sleep—Fiction. 2. Animals—Fiction.] I. Wood, don, 1945– illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.W846Ful 2015 [e]—dc23

2014038079

Manufactured in TKTK 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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For rosalie Grace Heacock Thompson

There is a house, a full-moon house, where everyone is restless.

And in that housethere is a bed,

a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house,where everyone is restless.

And in that bedthere is a granny, a sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house,where everyone is restless.

And with that grannythere is a child,

a fidgety childwith a sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house, where everyone is restless.

And with that childthere is a dog ,

a playful dogwith a fidgety childwith a sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house,where everyone is restless.

And with that dogthere is a cat,a prowling catwith a playful dogwith a fidgety childwith a sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house, where everyone is restless.

And with that catthere is a mouse,a worried mousewith a prowling catwith a playful dogwith a fidgety childwith a sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house,where everyone is restless.

until . . .

a chirping cricketsings his songto the worried mouseand the prowling catand the playful dogand the fidgety childand the sleepless grannyin a wide-awake bedin a full-moon house, where everyone is restless.

A full-moon song that soothes the mouse,

who calms the cat,

who gentles the dog ,

who snuggles the boy,

who hugs the granny,

in the dreamy bed,

in the full-moon house, where no one now is restless.